Wendy Sherman

It is the international unity of sanctions and the international unity of negotiations that makes this effective.

It is to ensure the enforcement, to strengthen the enforcement, to watch what Iran does on the 15th and 16th.

From my perspective, as long as Iran is actively pursuing its nuclear program, we must actively work to increase the pressure.

Rouhani is very much part of the religious cleric class in Iran.

Just today, you saw on the morning news where he said again a no deal is better than a bad deal, that we are doing this with our eyes open.

The real answer to this, to the safety and security of all of the people in the camps--who wants to live in a camp?--is resettlement to third countries to get out of Iraq and to get out of harm's way.

I do not trust the people who sit across the table from me in these negotiations.

I actually told the Iranians on the margins of the P5+1 meeting that I would testify, and they would hear from me that we were glad for what the President, President Rouhani had said, what Foreign Minister Zarif had said.

The P5+1 has agreed that the proposal we put on the table in Almaty stays on the table.

So have a stick, but then have a carrot.

Iran is putting together a considerable nuclear weapons production capability, if it chose to go that route.

We hope that Iran will expeditiously free all of the 80 political prisoners whose pardons it recently announced.

I mean, we should not be expecting the State Department to help bail Congress out of the dysfunction of not being willing to sit down and compromise.

We will know rather quickly whether we are beginning a serious negotiation or whether we are moving down one more road that leads nowhere.

This is your opportunity. Come on the 15th of October with concrete, substantive actions that you will take, commitments you will make in a verifiable way.

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The United States remains committed to our strategic partnership with Afghanistan, including the transition from a donor-driven to private sector-led economy.

if he becomes President, we will have a new negotiator, and I do not know whether that will make any difference whatsoever

I think we all would like all of Iran's oil to go, but it is not in our interest to have any of those six economies tank in the process.

We can continue to work together in dealing with this threat to our security and global stability.